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    Little Soldiers is a 1996 Telugu film about two orphaned siblings, Bunny and Sunny, who are targeted by their greedy uncle after their parents die in a suspicious accident. The film follows the children as they try to escape their uncle's killer while seeking refuge with their estranged grandfather and grandmother. It received critical acclaim and awards for its child acting and storytelling. The film explores the children's journey and how they outwit their uncle's killer through clever traps, ultimately finding justice.

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    Little Soldiers
    Little soldiers movie.png
    Theatrical release poster
    Directed by Gunnam Gangaraju
    Written by Gunnam Gangaraju
    Produced by Gunnam Gangaraju
    Starring

    Baby Kavya
    Baladitya
    Sudhakar
    Giri Babu
    Rohini Hattangadi
    Heera Rajagopal
    Kota Srinivasa Rao
    Brahmanandam
    Ramesh Aravind

    Cinematography Rasool Ellore


    Edited by Mohan Ramarao
    Music by Sri
    Distributed by Font Films
    Release date
    2 February 1996

    Country India
    Language Telugu
    Budget ₹1.06 crore[1]

    Little Soldiers is a 1996 Telugu-language children's film written, directed, and


    produced by Gunnam Gangaraju.[2][3][4] The film stars Kavya, Baladitya, Kota
    Srinivasa Rao, and Brahmanandam, with a soundtrack composed by Sri.[5][6]

    Upon release, the film and the soundtrack received positive reviews. It has
    garnered six state Nandi Awards including the Nandi Award for Best Feature Film
    (silver),[7] in addition to the National Film Award for Best Child Artist (Kavya).
    [5][6][4] The film was screened at the International Film Festival of India.[8][3]
    The film has also been dubbed in Tamil as Kutti Sippaigal.[9]
    Plot

    The story starts off with Bunny aged three and Sunny aged nine, who are siblings.
    They quarrel a lot but love each other dearly. The children in the neighborhood are
    cautious about the sibling duo due to the mischievous nature of Bunny. Their father
    Aravind is a jingle composer estranged from his father for choosing music over a
    career in the army. Aravind marries Anita and raises his family without the
    blessings of his father. Anita is weary and has to constantly keep up with Sunny
    and Bunny's little tantrums.

    Rajeswari, a wealthy widow of a royal family, disowns her daughter, Anita, for
    marrying a no-good guitar-strummer and wills her estate to her brother, Seshagiri.
    Some years on, Rajeswari suffers a stroke and a change of heart. She decides to
    bequeath her property to her daughter and sets Seshagiri to the task of locating
    Anita and her progeny. Seshagiri and his wastrel son who were living off Rajeswari,
    are jolted. With the help of a professional killer, they hatch a plan to engineer
    the deaths of Anita and her family in the form of an accident, so as to avoid any
    suspicion.

    Aravind, Anita, and their two children go on a singing, road tour. They are
    followed by the killer in a truck. Meanwhile, Aravind explains to his children
    about their grandfather being an Army Major and how he fell in love with their
    mother. After a successful musical tour, the dreaded accident takes place on the
    way back home and the parents are killed. But Sunny and Bunny escape. As the two
    kids are alone at home, the professional killer makes an attempt to snuff them out
    with a gas leak. Fortunately, they are saved by their grandfather who arrives on
    time.

    General Harischandra Prasad is living alone on a farm after retirement. On learning


    that his son, Aravind, and daughter-in-law, Anita have been killed in a road
    accident, he goes in search of his two orphaned grandchildren. He takes Sunny and
    Bunny to the village where they meet Gun(Bramhanandam) who befriends them. The
    killer tries to kill the children again by releasing a snake into the bathroom, but
    Sunny cleverly escapes, earning the praise of his grandfather. Seeing his bravery,
    Harishchandra Prasad decides to send him to a Sainik boarding school, which is only
    for boys. Sunny and Bunny are heartbroken at the separation and escape from the
    train station the next day, with only a bag containing their maternal grandmother's
    address, who lives in Vizag. They climb into the trunk of a car, which
    coincidentally happens to be the car of Seshagiri's son and the killer. On finding
    them in the trunk, Seshagiri's son tricks them and throws them off of a bridge into
    a canal. Sunny and Bunny swim to the other side of the canal and escape. They reach
    Vizag on a bus and try to retrieve the bag containing the address from the car.
    They sneak into the house with the car (which unknown to them, happens to be their
    grandmother's house). Seshagiri finds them and tries to hand them over to the
    killer but Rajeswari Devi (their grandmother) takes them in and decides to help
    them.

    On the day of their mother's birthday, Rajeswari realizes that Sunny and Bunny are
    her grandchildren and that her daughter was dead. They mourn for Aravind and Anita
    and Rajeswari takes the children to their grandfather to make amends. Harishchandra
    Prasad, who realizes his mistake of forcing his dreams on his children, gladly
    accepts their apology and apologizes in return.

    Meanwhile, Seshagiri realizes that the situation is going out of hand and plans to
    kill them, dump their bodies in the house and burn the house down on Diwali, on the
    pretext of passing it as an accident. Harishchandra Prasad takes his grandchildren
    to the nearby forest for camping and by the time they return, Seshagiri, his son,
    and the killer attack them. Bunny and Sunny escape into the forest alone and the
    trio of villains chase them. The resourceful Bunny and Sunny confront the killers
    and give them their just deserts, with the help of the traps they set earlier with
    their grandfather while camping. During the chase, their grandfather arrives and
    joins them, and they succeed in eliminating the villains. The grandfather salutes
    them proudly as they turned into the soldiers he had wished for. (The credits
    roll.)
    Cast

    Baby Kavya as Bunny


    Baladitya as Sunny
    Sudhakar as Seshagiri's son
    Giri Babu as Seshagiri
    Rohini Hattangadi as Rajeswari Devi, a wealthy widow who's a dog-lover and
    Anitha's mother
    Kota Srinivasa Rao as Major Harishchandra Prasad
    Brahmanandam as Gun (house cook in Major's house )
    Heera Rajagopal as Anitha, Rajeswari Devi's estranged daughter
    Ramesh Aravind as Aravind, Bunny and Sunny's jolly father
    Rallapalli as Gopal
    Banerjee

    Production

    Gunnam Gangaraju was running a greeting cards business named 'Font Cards' which was
    doing well at the time. But he was interested in filmmaking, so he planned to do a
    film. He started the film Little Soldiers with a story he had written back in 1982
    or 1984.[1][10][11] Initially, it was supposed to be produced by someone else with
    Gangaraju directing it. When the producer backed out, Gangaraju himself produced
    the film.[1]

    He said the hardest part about the film was making the three-year-old girl Kavya,
    who played one of the prominent characters in the film, to act. she dubbed in her
    own voice for all the scenes by learning Telugu in 3 months.[11] As per Gangaraju,
    he wrote the climax booby traps sequence years before the release of Home Alone
    (1993).[1]
    Soundtrack

    The soundtrack is composed by Sri.[5][6]


    Song Singer
    "I Am a Very Good Girl" Deepika, Vishnukanth
    "Maa Father O Tiger" Mano
    "Adagaalanundi Oka Doubtuni" Sri, Deepika, Vishnukanth
    "Oho Vendi Vennela" Ram Chakravarthy, M. M. Srilekha, Vishnukanth
    "Sarele Vooruko Pareshaanenduko" Sri
    "Evadandi Veedu Robinhood Laa" Mano
    "Ek Do Teen, Aage Chal" Ravi
    Reception

    Writing for The News Minute in June 2019, Sankeertana Varma stated, "Little
    Soldiers plays a rather tricky yet ultimately rewarding game of perspectives where
    the audience is made to empathise with the character that's on screen in the scene
    they're watching."[12]
    Box office

    Gangaraju mentioned that he had invested ₹1.06 crore on the film and recovered ₹50–
    60 lakh from it as advances and incurred a loss of around ₹50 lakh.[13][1] He feels
    the film would have performed better with a different publicity strategy.[1][10] He
    also mentioned the long shooting time as a reason for the film's losses.[11]
    Awards

    National Film Awards

    Best Child Artist - Kavya[8][14]

    Nandi Awards - 1996[15]

    Second Best Feature Film - Silver - Gunnam Gangaraju


    Best Director - Gunnam Gangaraju
    Best Screenplay Writer - Gunnam Gangaraju
    Best Character Actor - Kota Srinivasa Rao
    Best Child Actor - Master Aditya
    Best Child Actress - Baby Kavya

    References

    Jeevi; Aditya. "Interview with Gunnam Gangaraju - Anukokunda Oka Roju".


    Idlebrain.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 5 September
    2022.
    "Articles : Movie Retrospect : Retro: Little Soldiers (1996)". Archived from the
    original on 19 August 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
    "Gunnam Gangaraju - Telugu Cinema interview - Telugu film producer and director".
    "Little Soldiers Kavya Wedding Photos". 23 December 2015.
    "Little Soldiers Reviews, Photo Gallery, Songs, Cast and Crew". Archived from the
    original on 15 June 2007. Retrieved 22 June 2007.
    "Little Soldiers". 1 January 2000 – via IMDb.
    "Nandi Awards - 1996 - Winners & Nominees".
    "44th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9
    January 2012.
    "Kutti Sippaigal". Amazon Prime Video. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
    Sri (5 August 2005). "Gunnam Gangaraju - Interview". Telugucinema.com. Archived
    from the original on 19 November 2006. Retrieved 22 June 2007.
    "ప్రభుత్వ జోక్యంతోనే టికెట్‌ ధరల సమస్య.. అక్కడ థియేటర్‌కు రూ.కోటి లంచం ఇవ్వాలి". Eenadu (in Telugu).
    Retrieved 9 September 2022.
    "Made 23 years ago, Telugu film 'Little Soldiers' is still charming: Here's why".
    The News Minute. 15 June 2019.
    "Interview with Gangaraju Gunnam about Amrutham Chandamamalo". Idlebrain.com. 15
    May 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
    "'Baby' Kavya's grand reception in Hyderabad - Times of India". The Times of India.

    "నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964 - 2008)" [A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964 -
    2008)] (PDF) (in Telugu). Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh. 13
    March 2010. p. 74. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
    External links

    Little Soldiers at IMDb


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    1996 filmsIndian children's filmsIndian black comedy films1990s black comedy


    films1990s Telugu-language films1996 comedy-drama filmsIndian comedy-drama
    films1996 directorial debut films

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